Konstantin Chevkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetKonstantin Chevkin
Russian politician
Date of Birth: 26-Apr-1802
Place of Birth: Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1875
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Konstantin Chevkin
- Konstantin Vladimirovitch Chevkin (1802–1875) was Minister of Transport in Imperial Russia (1855–1862). Chevkin served in the Imperial Russian Army fighting in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828) and Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829).
- He also participated in the defeat of the Polish November Uprising.
- He then was sent on diplomatic missions to France and Germany.Reaching the rank of Major General, Chevkin was appointed Chief of Staff of the Corps of Mining Engineers in 1834.
- We also had visited England and other parts of Western Europe to study the development of railways before joining Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel Petrovich Melnikov and Colonel N.
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- Kraft in Alexander von Benckendorff's Commission looking into the viability of establishing the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway.Chevkinite-(Ce) is a mineral which was named after Konstantin Chevkin.
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